Aquifer Portal at U of Michigan Kat Hagedorn and Perry Willett University of Michigan DLF Spring Forum, Austin TX April 11, 2006
Aquifer: Collections Subject matter: American Civil War and Lincoln Metadata requirements: MODS profile Currently only two institutions meet both requirements: –Library of Congress –Indiana University
Aquifer: Harvester Built upon the experience with OAIster and IMLS grant Expanded to harvest MODS records Including thumbnails, “harvested” from UIUC
Aquifer: Portal (1) Developed from OAIster Improved interface More fields to search –Language (now human readable!) –Institution
Aquifer: Portal (2) Added “dataset” as resource type Developed SRU functionality
Aquifer: Portal
Aquifer: Next steps Date normalization Subject classification / clustering